I copied, then renamed the .zip files to be .vgadget files. The renamed files installed easily.

It appears that I can work around this strange file transfer behavior by renaming the files to have the expected file extension. Of course, that should not be necessary. I noted that sheiney reported the same strange download behavior on December 11th, so I appended my post to the same topic to provide evidence that this is a more general issue.

Let me know what additional information I might provide to help figure out why this is happening. Maybe there is some dependency on browser settings, such that my settings are different that Adrian's ...

I share Adrian's aversion to Edge ... I tried it only to see if it would behave differently.

Today seems to be the day for the gadget files to download as .exe files for me. First attachment shows the option I get in Windows Explorer when I choose to save the file. When I renamed a copy of these two files with .vgadget extensions they both failed to install with the message "Failed to Install Gadget" shown in the second attachment.

You're on the wrong website. There is no Tangents Gadget for V9 as it's now a built-in function.

The address in your explorer bar should have V9 in it. For example if you're were downloading the Square Around gadget you should have http://gadgets.vectric.com/V9/square_around.html in the address bar. Without the V9 it will default to the old pre-V9 gadgets.

I have read all of the post here.What I take away from this thread is that, make sure you are in the correct version of your soft ware and use Chrome as the prefered browse to do a download.Is this all correct.I ask this because I am about to upgrade to vcarve pro.Which I want to be able to get the Gadgets.Jeff

I have the most uptodate Vcarve pro version V9.5.10 I have been trying to install gadgets the usual way (download the .vgadget file from the website and double click on it or click vcarve install gadget and find it) but none of that was working. I was getting the message "failed to extract archive"

eventually I copied the .vgadget file and pasted in VCarve "Program Files" folder and double clicked it and it was installed.